http://comments.deasil.com/2007/07/24/more-on-why-i-think-time-spent-on-site-is-a-kind-of-a-dumb-metric/ escape colon w q Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:35:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/07/24/more-on-why-i-think-time-spent-on-site-is-a-kind-of-a-dumb-metric/#comment-5012 Even more on why I think time spent on site is a kind of a dumb metric Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:55:56 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/07/24/more-on-why-i-think-time-spent-on-site-is-a-kind-of-a-dumb-metric/#comment-5012 [...] don’t mean to harp, but “Average Time on Site” is a silly metric to use. Not in theory, sure if you could actually calculate it and know [...] [...] don’t mean to harp, but “Average Time on Site” is a silly metric to use. Not in theory, sure if you could actually calculate it and know [...]

]]> http://comments.deasil.com/2007/07/24/more-on-why-i-think-time-spent-on-site-is-a-kind-of-a-dumb-metric/#comment-2762 Fabryce31 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:06:48 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/07/24/more-on-why-i-think-time-spent-on-site-is-a-kind-of-a-dumb-metric/#comment-2762 One way, not perfect , to measure the time a visitor spend on your site would be to count the time between the point he requires the webpage and the last time his mouse was moved (it can be done easily with javascript and a little touch of Ajax). But I agree that wouldn't solve the case when a page is opened in a tab for example and then the reader do something else and finaly came back to its browser and read the page. One way, not perfect , to measure the time a visitor spend on your site would be to count the time between the point he requires the webpage and the last time his mouse was moved (it can be done easily with javascript and a little touch of Ajax).
But I agree that wouldn’t solve the case when a page is opened in a tab for example and then the reader do something else and finaly came back to its browser and read the page.

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